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Or is your Windows copy maybe stolen and you can't install SP2? :

No offense, but "I don't feel like disabling half the functions" doesn't make a lot sense to me - if you want to run programs that require SP2, then install the pack or leave it be, your decision. It's a fact, though (as people have told you), that SP2 does not force you to use any programs or anything, it's mainly a security update.

If you are not motivated to use it and disable the functions you don't want, you're not gonna be able to install the software that requires it. Easy as pie.

It's nice as far as I can tell. It's well recorded, nicely written punk-rock. Of course, this is a genre where vocals are a must and instrumentals just don't work well, so we shall wait for that... Make sure to pick a great singer who really rounds off the band's sound, the voice (and arguably the looks) of the singer make up a LOT of how your typical audience will rate your band, especially in your genre! Nice drumming and playing.

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You have infringed on my pride, dear cheese-puff.

I've been watching way to much 70s Show lately...

Good day.

I SAY GOOD-DAY!!

I suppose the green color shows you the last unread post in the thread.

Vintage guitars are very wanted on the market. Today, models from '56 to '74 for example go for a fortune. Of course, not with all guitars, but - if you spend 2000â,¬ or 3000â,¬ on a Gibson Les Paul in the 70s, you can now sell it for a lot, lot more.

It's similar to wine, the older, the better - at least for people who like used, vintage guitars.

Anyways, this is all off-topic. Let's leave it at that. :p

Guitars can be great investments, I have guitar and guitar-related equipment with values that add up to a little less than 3000â,¬ if I were to sell it all used, but a Squier guitar (while not necessarily bad for a beginner) just isn't expensive. In fact, I didn't know Squiers could cost as much as you paid for it, Tuomas. Anyways, wish you luck - but I'll have to agree, you probably won't be able to sell it for more than 70â,¬.

Ha, well, he does run!

It's a run'n'climb. Or just a sidescroller.

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Thanks for the feedback.

ProgZ: That's true, a split-up between upper and lower body would've been a good and professional solution, unfortunately I didn't think enough about this issue when I started the work on the game (due to the time limitation of the contest), next time I'm doing something like this, it will be the way to go.

TheJBurger: A drop-down animation would've been nice and not even that hard to implement, if I had more time and were a quicker animator, it would've been in there, but then I decided it looked okay as it was. The helmets will fly into the scenery. It's just a simple animation, in order to prevent that, I'd have to include a simple physics engine or multiple death animations etc., and that would've killed way to much time. As you say, it's just a low-priority glitch. About the tutorial: I actually always wanted to create one, but when you work on an engine with this level of complexity, there's just not enough time left for all that.

radiowaves: Hehe, you had a similar idea?

Thalon: Thanks, you're right about the renaming.

Argh, sorry for that. I took the setup out, because you aren't able to play it in windowed mode or with a different resolution anyways, it's too slow for that. Didn't think about the letter-boxing.

You can get a setup HERE though, just place it in the game-directory and run it!

Thanks a lot for that. You're right about the weapon-changing. Letting the player change items while running is very hard to make look nice when you animate the character in one piece. Basically, I have a walkcycle for every weapon, but in order to make the walking look coherent while changing, I would've to switch to the other walkcycle and just the right frame of the new animation, so the foot-stepping isn't reset. It really wouldn't have been hard to implement, there just wasn't enough time already. I had a lot more ideas, maybe I'll produce an extended version some day.

Thanks and likewise.

[Revelation]

Revelation

Finally finished my entry. Find the thread HERE, it contains all information.

[REVELATION]

REVELATION

Entry for MAGS-contest 09/2007

Revelation is a stealth/action jump'n'run game. It also allows you to create your own levels easily!

Features:

- Tile-based jump'n'run game with stealth-action elements...
- No boring story...
- Different weapons...
- Easily alarmed enemies with a waypoint-system...
- Two-dimensional parallax-scrolling in three layers...
- Easy to create your own levels, as many as you want...
- Music

Please do read the readme-file, it contains vital information:

CONTROLS

Move the player to the left or right with the left and
right cursor keys respectively.

When you stand next to a ledge, a flashing arrow will
point upwards. Once you see this symbol, you can climb
up by pressing the up cursor key.

To jump down a ledge, just walk over the edge. You are
a trained professional when it comes to moving, so even
longer jumps don't hurt you.

Hit the number keys to select a weapon, a little indicator
will pop up in the top-right corner of the screen showing
the different weapons you have availabe and which one is
currently selected.

In order to use a weapon, hit the space key.


TACTICS

In each level, it's your objective to find the way out of
the enemy structure. There are lots of enemy guards between
you and the exit, though, so prepare for a challenging fight.

The guards outnumber you and your fire power by a huge margin,
but they aren't exactly smart, that's your chance. Try to
sneak up on them. In addition to the weapons you can find in
the level, you will always be equipped with a knife. Use it to
overpower the enemy or try to solve levels without even being
seen at all. Be cautious when fighting though, the guards
aren't bright, but they will be alarmed when they see a dead
comrade.

Most likely, your knife will be your most preferred weapon,
there are, however, situations which are extremely hard to
survive without resorting to the range attack of guns.


LEVEL EDITOR

If you want to create your own levels for 'Revelation', simply
create a new text-file in the game directory (you can use any
text-editor such as Notepad or Word). The first line has to be
the width of the level in tiles, the second line is the height.
The rest of the file is the level. If you are new to concept of
tiles, feel free to open the two example levels called
"level1.txt" and "level2.txt".

In the level, certain symbols mean certain tiles in the game.
For the tiles, it's best to find these out by taking a good
look at the example levels, other symbols are: P for the place
the player starts, E for enemy, H for a health potion, 2 for
the pistol, 3 for the uzi and F for the finish, the goal the
player has to reach to beat the level.

Make sure that you have the correct dimensions of the level
in the first two lines of the file, otherwise the game might
crash or return unexpected results.

In order to test and play your own creation, save it, then
open the "levels.txt" list and simply add a line at the end
of it with your filename. Now it should appear in the main
menu of 'Revelation'.

Be creative, have fun and make sure to upload and announce your
own levels to share them with others.


CREDITS

Programming, Art, Animation and Music done by Jan Simon aka
'dkh' in one busy month.

DOWNLOAD LINK

I have an entry as well, I suppose this competition will stay open until 23:59 of the 25th, right?

The banner still brings me to http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php with the old shots (it first has www.etc in the adress-bar, but its then replaced after a second with the new.etc). And yes, I have deleted the cache, it still does the same thing...

Currently wacom is the only real company that makes worthy tablets. Those others may be cheap but they are just piece of shit.

I'm not some sort of tablet-guru, but I know for a fact, that there are very good and cheaper alternatives to Wacom out there, if you know where to look.

Ah. Somebody just HAS to update the link in the forum banner above though, that's what I always use to visit the main page, because I only have this forum here bookmarked.

Nice screens though, I approve heavily.

They still look old to me. :o

7DAS and TOAK. Am I missing something here?

Yep, how old is a GeForce 2 now? Close to ten years? That's a bit too old, I guess.